From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support diff.autorefreshindex=true in `git-diff --quiet'
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:47:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4p4ymocc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <quack.20080902T1039.lthabeqmopo_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu> (Karl Chen's message of "Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:39:47 -0700")
Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> If anyone actually used the old behavior of ignoring
> diff.autorefreshindex (as an optimization, because the script ran
> update-index --refresh outside a loop), there could be a --quick
> option, or they could use git-diff-files.
No, that actually is a wrong attitude.
If somebody's depending on the behaviour, it is this new behaviour of
doing everything asked without shortcut that needs to become a new
option.
What tempted me to suggest the simpler and potentially slower approach was
my hunch that no sane people depended on the old behaviour.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 8:29 [PATCH] Support diff.autorefreshindex=true in `git-diff --quiet' Karl Chen
2008-09-01 10:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-01 10:50 ` Karl Chen
2008-09-02 6:20 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-09-02 17:39 ` Karl Chen
2008-09-02 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-02 17:59 ` Karl Chen
2008-09-02 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
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